Job Title: Accounts Executive (Part-Time, 3 Days/Week – Office-Based in Brixton)

Location: Brixton, London
Working Pattern: Part-time (3 days per week, in-office)
Reporting to: Fractional CFO

About Us

At The Adventure People, we’re passionate about delivering exceptional travel experiences across the globe. As our international footprint continues to grow, so does the need for strong financial and operational support. We’re looking for a highly capable and organised Accounts Executive to join our team at our Brixton office to help us stay on top of our finances and keep our suppliers paid on time.

Role Overview

You’ll play a pivotal role in our finance operations, handling day-to-day bookkeeping, supplier payments, reconciliations, and supporting our finance partners. You’ll work closely with our fractional CFO and our accountants to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timeliness across financial functions. This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in a dynamic, international environment and enjoys working with systems and numbers.

Key Responsibilities

• Supplier Management: Process and schedule payments to suppliers across various currencies and regions

• Bank and Account Reconciliation: Regular reconciliation of bank, credit card, and payment accounts in Xero

• Currency Management: Assist with multi-currency transactions and ensure correct exchange rates and FX handling

• Financial Record-Keeping: Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records for internal reporting and compliance

• Collaboration: Liaise with our fractional CFO and external accountants to support month-end close, tax filings, and other reporting needs

• Process Improvement: Help refine finance processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency or accuracy

Key Requirements

• Bookkeeping Experience: Minimum 2 years’ experience in a bookkeeping or finance admin role

• Tech Proficiency:

  • Xero: Strong working knowledge is essential

  • Excel: Advanced Excel skills, including use of formulas, pivot tables, and reconciliation tools

• Attention to Detail: Accuracy and diligence are essential in handling multi-currency transactions and reconciliations

• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate clearly with internal stakeholders and suppliers

• Organised and Self-Motivated: Comfortable working independently and managing your own workload across three days

Desirable Attributes

• Experience working with international suppliers and multi-currency accounting

• Prior experience in travel, hospitality, or consumer services sectors

• Familiarity with cloud-based collaboration tools (e.g. Google Workspace, Slack)

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary

• 25 days of holiday (pro rata) plus bank holidays

• Pension scheme

• Discounts on our trips For you, friends and family

• Modern office with roof garden

• Dynamic start up culture

• Mission Driven

• Opportunity to work closely with an experienced CFO and gain broader financial insight

• A friendly, fast-paced office in vibrant Brixton

How to Apply

Send your CV and a short cover letter outlining your experience and why you're a great fit for the role to chris@theadventurepeople.com. We’re excited to hear from you!

Travel Expert

If you're interested in this role please send a covering letter and CV to hello@theadventurepeople.com please.

The Role Summary

We are a modern travel agency specialising in adventures, tours and holidays with a twist. We blend market leading technology with the best sales and service people in the travel industry.

We are looking for someone who wants to join us on our mission to provide the most exciting and inspiring holidays in the world.

We are on a fast growth plan and so we’re looking for people who thrive in a changing environment. You’ll be flexible, motivated, disciplined, ambitious, responsible and have the will and drive to succeed against the odds. You’ll also take full ownership of your leads and customers with no limit on what you could earn.

Key Responsibilities Summarised:
● Converting sales enquiries into bookings.
● Maintain leading customer service levels.
● A flexi working model with 3 days in our London office (Tue - Thu) and two days at home.

Salary & Commission Structure
● Typical annual earnings (salary + commission) between £27k - £33k.
● No limits on earnings.
● Uncapped commission based on targets.

Specifically the areas of responsibility are:
● Promptly, accurately and comprehensively answer customer enquiries.
● Use our mid-office to record all enquiries.
● Drive conversion as high as possible through your sales techniques and
processes.
● Drive your repeat customer rate as high as possible through market
leading service.
● Be competent at all sales channels (email, phone, chat and the odd walk
in).
● Become an expert at using our phone system.
● Ensure when home working to have the right environment from which to work.
● Be commercially minded and where possible increase commissions and / or use preferred providers and partners.
● Cross sell into accommodation and transfers where possible.
● Ask for help when required.

Who We're Looking For:
The ideal person to join The Adventure people is an adult with ambition and aspiration who LOVES people and customers. Here is what we mean:

You’re An Adult:
● You’re responsible and a self starter.
● You are disciplined enough to manage yourself.
● You are responsible enough to understand the protection of cash flow and keeping costs down.
● You know the difference between ‘cheap’ and ‘good value’.
● You take ownership and live and die by your decisions.
● You don’t need a manager because you’re more than a manager.
● You solve problems.
● You hit deadlines.
● You’re a great team member, you’re good at communicating your plans,
talking about problems, challenges, fun stuff and bad stuff.
● You ask for help.
● You’re honest and have integrity.
● You enjoy life.

You Have Ambition:
● You set their own goals and strive to achieve them.
● You share your goals, progress, success and failure with the team.
● You push yourself.
● You want to achieve something – to be able to say ‘I did that’.
● You recognize what the business is trying to do and align with our goals.
● You can make decisions based on brand values.
● You’re not afraid of facing setbacks and coming up with solutions.
● You embrace help.
Experience Requirements

We're looking for someone with a minimum of 2 years sales experience utilising chat, phone and email.

We’d prefer someone with experience in the adventure / activity / long haul sector but it’s not essential. We will consider candidates with experience from other travel sectors.

You're competent in Word and Excel.

C# .Net Core Developer

We're looking for an experienced and versatile C# developer for a funded start-up that is doing some exciting work within the emerging adventure travel sector. We use the latest technologies and harness the power of the cloud and serverless computing to bring reliability, efficiency and speed to everything we do.

We want a motivated, upbeat and ambitious person, looking to grow your career alongside the founders of an exciting start-up. You'll get your hands dirty with more than just coding so be prepared to help create the development culture and processes all the way from design decisions and coding standards through to QA and DevOps.

The role will mainly involve developing API’s and applications to support our operations on the website and the data management behind the scenes.

In return, we offer a generous salary plus equity options. We are very flexible with hours with work from home options.

Here's the kind of person we're looking for:

• Positive attitude and excited to get down to work every day

• An enjoyment of all things code and technical that finds you reading up or experimenting, even in your own time

• Have tons of initiative and a common sense approach to technical issues

• Able to balance your desire for the perfect technical solution with a realistic approach to simplicity, time and cost concerns

• Happy to work in an informal, entrepreneurial setting where processes are still being created - you can help to create the dev processes yourself!

• A contributor to the entire dev life-cycle including devops

• The kind of person to get involved with open source projects and sharing your knowledge

• A devotee of the KISS principle

These are the skills we need:

• C# (with .Net core)

• SQL Server

• Entity framework

• AWS (Lambda, EC2, RDS etc)

• Git

• Agile Development

• Unit Testing/TDD

• SOLID ,DRY and clean code principles

Bonus skills:

• HTML5, Javascript, CSS3 and responsive design

• ReactJS

• Jira

• Elastic search

• Devops / CI

• Design patterns

If you're interested in this role please send a covering letter and CV to hello@theadventurepeople.com please.

Digital Marketing Manager

We are looking for a talented digital marketing manager to take ownership of our digital marketing strategy as we accelerate our growth.

The core responsibility of the role is customer acquisition through paid and non paid channels with specific focus on the optimisation of search engine activity.

Our HQ is in Brixton but we employ a flexible working policy whereby the choice of location for work is given to the employee with some time required in the office (usually one day per week).

The Adventure People is a tech driven travel ecommerce site. Established in 2017, selected by London& Partners in 2019 as one of London’s fastest growing businesses, The Adventure People is shaking up the experience based holiday space and has grown throughout the pandemic, doubling in size since 2019. Our next steps are to scale up and internationalise.

The kind of person we're looking for:

• Positive attitude and excited to get down to work every day.

• An enjoyment of all things digital and marketing.

• Have tons of initiative and a common sense approach.

• Able to work to deadlines and is self sufficient.

• Happy to work in an informal, entrepreneurial setting where processes are still being created.

• A contributor to the entire strategic direction of the business.

• The kind of person to get involved.

• A devotee of the KISS principle.

• Great communicator.

The Purpose and Responsibility:

• The overall goal is to help the business scale exponentially whilst maintaining and improving our profitability performance.

• The acquisition of customers through paid search engine advertising, paid social and non paid channels.

• To manage and execute our organic traffic growth plan via an SEO strategy.

• To constantly improve the return on advertising spend ratio through delivering efficiencies in spend.

• To identify new routes and channels for customer acquisition.

• To be a brand and customer champion.

Required skills (min 3 years experience):

• Proven experience in digital activity including paid search engine and social channels.

• Ability to create and deliver paid digital marketing campaigns.

• To understand the KPIs of digital marketing and produce weekly / monthly reports.

• Non paid Social Media advertising and channel management.

• Ability to define and deliver an audience growth strategy for social channels.

• Monthly management reporting.

• To be an expert using Ad Words and Facebook Business Ads Manager.

Desirable skills:

• Some SEO.

• Some CRM / Email marketing.

• Some data analysis.

If you're interested in this role please send a covering letter and CV to hello@theadventurepeople.com please.

Do you operate adventurous holidays or tours and want to sell them through our website? Partner with us and it can happen!

If you're interested in working with us please email us on hello@theadventurepeople.com.